SteamWorld Dig: A Fistful Of Dirt

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. Fantastic on the 3DS, and then fantastic with much prettier graphics on PC, SteamWorld Dig [official site] is a combination of Metroidvania and mining, that manages to deliver that most difficult to balance of genres with aplomb.